Let me conference in our man in charge."I looked up at Lisa who was offering me my peg. She suggested, "Let's go down and see if we can get some coffe...e going. This is going to take a while."We made it down to the kitchen without making a lot of noise and searched out the coffee and the coffee filters for the Mr. Coffee pot on the counter. I knew that Mina usually made coffee in a huge percolator pot, but we needed coffee fast now, not later.We finally managed to find the filters and made a full. “I already know, he’ll have ‘fifty shades of Earl Grey’.”She left and I looked the place over. I wondered where my boyfriend happened to be.I heard his mirth-filled voice approaching. I also heard several women giggling. “…and just like that, Maris flung me across the arena with my armor falling off of me like October leaves. I roll to a stop right under her extremely sexy skirt, staring up into the Promised Land. When she bent down to insult me for invading her space, the way the sun. Where the hell are you?" Look down and be glad I am not hunting you."When he did, the look on his face caused me to snort and then laugh out loud at his expression. I heard a murmured, "smartass", before he disappeared from my line of sight. When I climbed out of the water, pulling off my diving flippers, they were both behind a log watching me with grinning faces."'Bout time you got here, slowpoke. We have been waiting for five minutes for you to finally arrive." Jubal, you were climbing out. She probably would be if the water was just a trifle deeper.We'd just come from a week of serious camping at the archaeological dig ... setting up camp at the beach was a snap ... after we cleared it with the Federales.I took bids:Raise her, clean her, restore her.I met a lot of greedy people. The low bids had a contingency rider. Certain problems may arise. If so, the customer guarantees payment. That sort of thing.The higher bids didn't have rider clauses. I disappointed the scoundrels and.